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Wouldn't a company need to explicitly confirm such changes (say by initialing) for them to become effective? The way I read it is that he's basically hoping th

Wouldn't a company need to explicitly confirm such changes (say by initialing) for them to become effective? The way I read it is that he's basically hoping that his scratch-outs will go unnoticed when the company brings him on board. That's simply because no reasonable company will accept an employment contract with NDA clause stricken out by a prospective employee. The only way this can happen is by an oversight, and that's what he appears to be exploiting. On the other hand, I did have my own contract amended at my request to list and acknowledge by participation in a number of my past projects, open source and not. They did not require a code escrow, nor the detailed description, so something like "p2p communication system" gave me a carte blanche for doing anything with p2p in it and keeping it all to myself.

mikeryan 16y ago
No he's expecting the signing party to read the blacked out parts and either agree to them (by signing) or not agree to them, by countering back. I black line and edit contracts regularly. Usually not on printed contracts with notes in the margins but with Word Docs with "Track Changes" turned on. I then return it (unsigned) with an email explaining my changes. They then either accept the new contract and sign or return it with their revisions and we go back and forth until we're happy. I'm always surprised by the number of people who don't negotiate language. I was told once that a company only pays invoices in 60 days. I changed that to 30 on my contract and they didn't even blink.